Thank you for being interested in becoming a guest on the OT Dude Podcast!
- The mission of OT Dude is to increase awareness of the profession of occupational therapy.
- This podcast is listened to and watched by students, therapists, educators, researchers, healthcare professionals, and the general public.
Evolving Themes for this Podcast
- Helping our audience to live richer, fuller, more meaningful lives – personally and professionally.
- What are you most passionate about?
- What are some stories that our audience would benefit from hearing (personal, professional)?
Topics I am Especially Interested In
Major points for guests who have experience or would like to talk about these topics – in no particular order:
- Autistic adults with the lived experience
- Those who failed Fieldwork or the NBCOT and how they eventually passed
- How to advocate and lobby for OT
- How to make OT more known and understood by the general public
- Chronic Pain: anything related, e.g., education, treatment, lived experiences, research
- Anything mental health: conditions, experiences, struggles, and insights, e.g., as an OT student
- You are a mental health OT practitioner
- ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
- Those who have volunteered or held positions at associations, organizations, or clubs, e.g., AOTA, State Associations, WFOT
- Minorities
- Male OTs
- Research, Evidence-Based Practice, Evidence-Informed Practice – bonus points for finding and using a research article (can be your own published work too!)
- You are a COTA/OTA
- You are an OT educator or a retired one
- You are a Healthcare YouTuber
- Driving & community mobility, loss of driving, assessment, rehabilitation, specialists
- Rare conditions (mental and/or physical) & non-pharmacological OT treatment
- Social justice and advocacy
- LGBTQ+ culture and issues
- Sex & Sexuality
- Ethical issues and stories you faced
- OT overseas outside of the US
- Team collaboration
- Personal context
- Environmental context
- Pragmatic issues in practice
- Clinical/professional reasoning, examples of, challenges, advice and tips
- A day in the life of (pre-OT, student, NBCOT, new grad, content creator, educator, researcher, entrepreneur)
- Motivation and engagement
- Emerging practice areas; future OT, e.g., ChatGPT & AI, Telehealth
- Stigma
- Stories about failure and overcoming obstacles (OT or not)
- Therapeutic use of self
- ADHD
- Learning disabilities
- Dementia
- Cognition and Neuroscience
- Psychology and Sociology
- Child development
- Payment systems and insurance
- Mindfulness
- Stress and anxiety coping
- Depression
- Suicide
- Capstone projects, Thesis, Dissertations
- Trauma, PTSD
- Teenagers as clients in OT
- OCD and OCPD
- Family estrangement & relationships
- Atypical OT settings and experiences
- Assistive technology
- Emerging practice areas
- Outdated practice interventions that are not evidence-based
- Aging in place
- OT (or non-OT) Theory and Frameworks
- Outcome measures, especially emerging and developing
- Top-Down vs. Bottom-up
- Imposter syndrome
- Burnout
- OT in popular culture
- Creative therapies and occupations for therapy, e.g., dance, animal-assisted, VR
- Interdisciplinary and other professions (SLP, LMFT, Social Work, etc.)
- Policy and changes
- Professors and Educators (active or retired)
- Resources that are out there that people don’t know about
- Being a mentor or fieldwork educator
- Traveling OT
- Continuing education
- Aha moments/What I learned/Reflection/Personal Growth
- Deep philosophical topics, e.g., death.
- General myths and misconceptions
- Collaborating with OTs (e.g., As a PT/PTA, SLP, RN, MD, Psych, etc.)
- Or anything that you think our audience would benefit from or be interested in hearing or learning from you.
Of course, almost* any topic is welcome as well so I still encourage you to fill out the form below even if it’s not on the list.
*Topics that are not discussed on this podcast include:
- Politics
- Polarizing issues
- Unethical practices
- e.g., “AOTA or NBCOT or ACOTE or [OT school] or OT sucks because…”
Overall, this podcast is meant to unite and uplift occupational therapy, its practitioners, and other evidence-based healthcare professions and professionals. Topics and personalities that are not in this spirit will not be considered at this time. Thank you for your understanding.
Nervous or Anxious?
I sometimes get nervous myself on my own podcast and especially when I’m a guest on others. I’ve been told even some regular podcast hosts themselves also get a little nervous. It’s a totally common emotion. Probably a protective response or emotion so we don’t embarrass ourselves in public right? Like public speaking.
But here are some reasons why you don’t have to worry too much about being a guest on the show:
- You will have plenty of time to prepare.
- You will know the questions ahead of time.
- You can even script your responses or just refer to your talking points, if you’d like.
- The main podcast is not live, although some might be in the future (you would know which format it is ahead of time).
- It is edited by me. I edit out mistakes and extra long silences when you need to think of responses. I edit out some of the filler words if they are distracting, but leave some if they convey meaning.
- You can restart a thought or sentence if you mess up or blank out.
- My goal is to edit the recording to make you shine and look/sound like a star. I put a lot of emphasis on quality in the production and editing.
- I’ve been told that I have a very calm demeanor.
- The format is totally informal. It’s not an interview, but like a conversation between friends where I try to connect with you and learn your story.
So I highly encourage you to submit a request if you are even a little bit interested in being a guest on the podcast.
How to Be a Guest
Please fill out the form below to get started!
As a guest on the podcast, you will have both your audio and video recording published online.
Feel free also to share this page with a friend if you think they would be a good candidate to be on the show!
If I don’t respond to your request within a few days or longer, it just means that I’m likely backlogged with other projects, work, and personal life stuff. I’ll respond to you either way so no need to submit multiple requests. Thanks for your patience!